Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:53 | 
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‘Mandala? You mean that Yin and Yang thing?’ The familiar Taoist visual representing the complementary qualities of male and female – opposition and interdependence – may shed a tiny light on oriental thinking. But there are loads more mandalas around, writes Diane Southam.
Published on Monday, 25 July 2011 10:21 | | |
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Ever been tempted to do something silly to your badly behaved computer? David Block was. Until he saw the (online) light...
Published on Friday, 22 July 2011 18:24 | | |
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Spare me the misery, writes Julia Stephenson. I’m happy to be childless.
I’ve just read another miserable article about a middle-aged childless woman rueing her lack of offspring.
'Oh woe is me,’ the lady will weep. 'I am doomed to a lonely future with no one to love me and mop my furrowed brow when I am in the old people’s home’.
Published on Thursday, 07 July 2011 16:02 | | |
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Medication can do much to alleviate the symptoms of illness that make your life miserable. But there is also the risk of side-effects.
US pharmacist Suzy Cohen claims that everyday medicines might be adding to your health woes by ‘stealing nutrients from your system or preventing their absorption’, making you feel worse, or even causing other conditions.
Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 18:21 | | |
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'What would you say was the worst thing that ever happened to you?' Roberta, the new friend that I made on my travels to Goa, asks me over a drink. Unsure of my answer, I fire back, 'What about you?' writes Clea Myers.
Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 15:16 | | |
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Barely a day passes without news of yet another manufactured drug flooding our UK market place — 'plant-food', meow meow, crystal meth — causing more damage, fear and confusion in the seemingly unwinnable battle against spiralling drug use and addiction, writes Clea Myers.
Before I read it in The Independent, I had no idea that Russia accounted for a third of the world's heroin addicts. And now a cheaper, man-made form nicknamed krokodil (crocodile) is taking over from the customary heroin imported from Afghanistan
Published on Friday, 29 July 2011 00:00 | | |
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More fascinating facts you never knew about smiling:
One smile can give the same level of brain stimulation as 2000 bars of chocolate.
Smiling can be as stimulating as receiving £16,000 in cash.
When you smile others think you are more competent.
Unborn babies smile.
Your smile can be a predictor of how long your marriage lasts.
Read more from Ron Gutman on the power of the smile.